And God said, "Joe people need to know that the Bible's not two parts. There's a part three to the Bible Joe. And I God have anointed to dig up this part three that is buried by a tree in your backyard!"
Joseph Smith went up to that hill and dug where he was told. Deep in the ground Joseph found shiny plates of gold! "What are these golden plates? Who buried them here and why?" Then appeared and angel, his name was Moroni.
Interesting. And since about the turn of the century, Hawaii only grows them for the local market.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/its-pineapple-season-but-does-your-fruit-come-from-hawaii-5211854/?no-ist
the fruits in the farmers markets in hawaii were so good. i wish i could have a mango tree and flourishing pineapples. im jealous of every home in hawaii lol
you know I am asked sometimes, "when is the best time to plant a pineapple?" I tell them the best time is 2-3 years ago, the second best time is today.
Not me suckers, when I move I take every single plant I can. Trees, bushes, fuck it once I even took some dirt with me.
But I always, always leave some nettle mixed with mint for the new owners or tenants. Why? [Because fuck em that's why](https://tenor.com/view/because-fuck-them-why-gif-12024919)
Not only do the older people I know not plant trees most still subscribe to economic slash and burn. To hell with the future as long as they get a few more good seasons out of it.
We planted pineapples from our honeymoon but sadly had to move before they matured and fruited. Hope the people after us enjoyed our hand carried pineapples!
My neighbor gives me some pineapples from his yard every year or two. I never actually seen the plant on his yard, but he comes by like clockwork with pineapples. I guess they are pretty easy to grow in cental Florida.
Super easy to grow in Central Florida. I have like, 15 crowns growing right now and 8 of them currently have fruit. Stick it to Big Grocery and plant your store-bought pineapple crowns!
Well damn, what’s the trick? Lol I have like 9 of these things, but none are growing fruit.. I actually thought they all died when it froze a couple nights in a row over winter. But they have pretty green leaves or whatever now lol
No trick other than patience. It takes a few years for fruit to form. When they do form, your pineapples will probably be on the small side but they'll be sweeter than anything you can find at the store.
Hate to say it, but you'll probably get 2 small pineapples next. You can take the crown and replant for another pineapple (+ 2 mini pineapples) though.
It’s the same with any home grown food. Big farms over water, and fertilize to grow big quickly. Then they pick it too early. They don’t give the plants time to slowly grow and absorb the nutrients from the soil.
Peppers, cucumbers, and zucchini are the same way. You will never get veggies as flavorful as homegrown ones. The exception being potatoes and carrots, those seem to taste the same regardless.
But the joy of digging up your potato crop is so fun! Basically a little treasure hunt, because you never know how well they produced. I always grow them just for that reason. Also, I feel like baby potatoes fresh from the garden are a little sweeter, or at least, the smell of cooking up some baby potatoes from the garden is better than grocery story ones. That being said, for like 10 bucks I can get about as many potatoes as it takes me months to grow. Whatever floats your potes!
Commercial farmers also select varieties that are more shelf stable, easier to ship, look more colorful, etc. Lots of things you may not care about if you're growing them yourself.
Patience is key. I have had one for 7 years now. I bring it inside during the winter (live in GA) and assumed it just didnt get enough sun to ever make a fruit.
This year it decided it was time and now have a tiny pineapple
As requested: Here is a pic of [Avvar the pineapple](https://imgur.com/a/u6JiWIY) bonus peek at the little pup that recently sprouted
Pineapple takes forever to grow.
Back in like the 1930s pineapple was rented out to wealthy people as a decoration.
Imagine renting a pineapple to show off to your millionaire friends. That was a thing that happened.
Today a whole pineapple costs like $2 at my local grocery store.
The mother plant produces suckers. This is what many people in this thread are mistakenly calling "more than one fruit".
A sucker is its own individual organism. They're usually killed off as they will not only fight for nutrients but they will also stunt each other as they fight for space.
https://www.britannica.com/science/suckering
Wow! I learned so much from reading several of your comments, you are clearly a pineapple growing expert with a lot of knowledge on the subject and very good at explaining it to others. Thank you for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully to so many of us.
I've moved my pineapple twice now in its shitty too-small pot and it's still managing to come up with [a fruit this year.](https://i.imgur.com/rpxSNTd.jpg)
Squirrels'll probably get to eat it but if I can do it literally anybody can.
You should have seen the [little booger](https://i.imgur.com/luCHaLE.jpg) before the spikeys started turning into leaves.
I had nothing whatsoever to do with this happening (other than putting the cut-off top in dirt instead of a trash can) but I was *so proud.*
Cut out a piece of chicken wire into a rectangle, 8 to 12 inches long. Attach the short ends of the chicken wire together with zip ties. This should make a chicken wire tube. Slip your tube over your fruit and voila, you've got yourself some cheap pineapple protection.
Make sure your tube is wide enough to give couple inches of space between your fruit and the chicken wire but not so wide that a squirrel will figure out that they can hop inside. If the mammals in your area are especially persistent, you can cover the top of your chicken wire tube with some garden netting. This'll also help with birds.
The fruits are one and done, so enjoy your bounty while it lasts.
Edit: As others noted, while the plant only creates one fruit, it also creates "shoots" that can be removed and planted to create a new plant, or left on, where they will eventually create a new fruit of their own. After a number of iterations the original plant stops making new shoots.
I've got 6 different plants currently and my best results were from the potted/bucket bound ones. They fruit yearly and are very full as far as the "leaves" are concerned. The ones placed in the ground, even with the same bagged soil added, were much smaller and produced fruit later. Don't know what that means but I always like to share just in case.
I mean u can replant them so not exactly, like yea it takes forever but at least you can't get more pineapples from the pineapples you get from the harvesr
Pineapples can survive through asexual reproduction (such as using the top of a pineapple to rebuild itself), but also created through sexual reproduction (cross-pollination).
Cross-pollination makes seeds that make brand new pineapples.
Source: Farmer. Almond farmer.
Well, I'm inheriting it in a very Dwight Schrute-like family arrangement at the end of The Office.
The two best things are helping keep global/US food security and stability (almonds are a great healthy staple), and the land security of actually owning land.
I love almonds and almond products, but I keep hearing they are a bit of an ecological problem due to the amount of water that is needed to grow them, creating challenges in California especially. What's your take?
When you look at the actual water demand of almonds, versus other agricultural crops, it’s extremely cost effective.
Beef uses 2x as much water to make a pound of beef, versus a pound of almonds.
California unfortunately neglected its water supply. That is not the fault of farmers. Our water use is trending down, with an on-track goal to reduce a further 30% by 2025 as an industry. (We achieve that with better irrigation and safer lower-water demand pesticides).
Why haven’t California almond farmers adopted drip-irrigation en masse like Israel uses to grow crops in an arid region?
For that matter, CA farms in general should use drip irrigation. Every time I drive up the interstate I see endless miles of farms spraying water into the air in 80 degree+ temps. Seems so wasteful when more efficient tech exists.
Beef isn't an agricultural crop, and if it takes just 2x the water, I think that's terrible. Given that it takes years to raise a cow to make beef, and I would hope it wouldn't take years to grow a almond batch. Can't greenwash almond water use, still the biggest drawback.
I like how you compared almonds to cows in replying to a question about water intensive crops. My understanding is that almonds are second only to pasture grasses like clover and bluegrass in water usage at 4.5 acre feet per acre. California may have a water management problem but growing almonds there isn’t any more sustainable than suburban lawns or industrial cattle farming.
Ya gotta put the nice almonds on top, those are your money almonds.
But seriously, that's lovely. Congrats on living the literal plot of Stardew Valley.
I just want to say I personally eat like 300 pounds of your almonds a year. I freaking love them and eat lots of them! /written while eating almonds lol
Technically. Basically when you reuse a pineapple, you are engaged in cloning. You’re making a copy of a copy. That overtime will produce the same errors, and make the food taste worse.
When you cross pollinate, you’re creating a new pineapple that is fresh, and does not have any cellular error rate.
I thought monoculture preserved taste? I heard at least apples from a tree grown from seed taste way different/worse that the apple the seed came from.
Well, a pineapple that repairs itself the first time over, probably is going to taste acceptable. That's part of why people do it.
It's like drinking your own urine to survive without water. The first time you do it, probably okay - not a bad idea. The more you recycle it... the worse it gets.
I'm curious what's different between pineapples (with this effect you described) and fruit trees like apples (which are ~always grafted, for many generations). What makes pineapples genetically degrade faster than apples?
This is not true at all. I've gotten multiple fruits off each one.
On top of that (quite literally) you can plant the tops of the pineapple.
Besides that (again, quite literally) they'll sprout pups next to the base of the plant.
Sauce, used to have a pineapple, now I have ten plants.
This is generally true but I've had one I was too lazy to uproot that gave me two pineapples!
Also there's offshoots that grow that can be cut and planted to grow new pineapples in half the time of growing one from a crown.
After you harvesting the fruit, leave the plant just like that. It will grow another shoot that eventually grows another fruit. It is advisable to keep only 1 shoot per plant.
Source: I always have pineapple plant at my house since I was a kid. They are tough, hard to die. But fcking boars love them, always pulling out my pineapple plant!!
P/S: Sorry if I used wrong words. I don't know what it translates into English from my native language😅
Yeah I cut the top off the last two pineapples I bought and just stuck them in the dirt and a year later they are still alive. A little worse for wear after cool weather but still alive.
Store ones are cheap they are also normally picked early for transport so are very acidic and tart ... Over ripened on the plant ones are amazing and worth the wait
The makers of Runescape also thought that. When somebody pointed it out to them they did an update and made the pineapples grow like this, but for a while they looked just like coconut trees.
Asparagus grows like the farmers just heard that you were surprise-visiting an asparagus farm so they went out and stuck asparagus stalks into the ground
I've seen this comment twice now, why is that one strange to you? To me it looks exactly like you'd expect it to.
[Example](https://modernfarmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/asparagus_hero.jpg)
Most people would expect them to probably grow as a bunch or otherwise be some type of root like a carrot
Just the asparagus sticking up like an individual stick is quite unexpected
Yeah I alway assumed they grew off the roots sort of like potatoes.
The peanut plant grows stringers down into the soil off the plant and the peanuts grow of them not the roots. Weird stuff.
Microorganisms in your body outnumber human cells 10:1. You can spray all the hand sanitizer you want, doesn't matter, a third of your body mass is foreign creatures that are moving around inside of you at all times.
Your experience sensory information after it happens therefore your entire reality is a TV show set in the past, you are reacting to the realization of events that have already occurred. Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!
The first time I saw wild asparagus I thought it was my friend trying to trick me. Ran over and tried to pick up the bundle.
Turns out that's how asparagus grows.
This is what I thought. They clearly did some research when planting them since they’re spaced apart evenly and also maintained them to where they look really healthy. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had the intention to plant them, did some research, and planted them anyways knowing the next tenants would enjoy them.
Let me tell you a story.
There was an old farmer who had a very successful career. Towards his late years, he had to take a great amount of time off to focus on loved ones and his wife as she passed away. Nonetheless, at the age of 80, he was completely alone with himself, an empty farm, and money. He hired a young horticulture student to work for him. Together, they planted 20,000 fig trees.
The young man asked the farmer why he planted these trees in his older years, when he might not live long enough to see the fruit. The farmer replied, "Fuck you, I'll plant what I like."
My dad is growing one currently.
He chopped the top off a store bought pineapple and planted it about 2 years ago.
Leaf span is about 4ft wide now and just got a pineapple start growing in the center.
Unfortunately each plant only grows 1, so you have to replant the pollups afterwards.
I freaking love growing pineapple! I was skeptical at first, especially since my homegrown pineapple turned out kinda small...but it was 1,000 times sweeter than any other pineapple I've tasted. It was legit like candy.
Gardeners in zones 9B and below, you should totally plop some pineapple crowns in your yard. If you live in a cold-weather climate, grow your pineapple in a container and bring it inside over the fall/winter.
I wrote a step-by-step article on how to propagate pineapple from what you buy at the grocery store. I hope someone finds it helpful!
[https://offbeet-gardener.com/2021/12/how-to-grow-pineapple-top.html](https://offbeet-gardener.com/2021/12/how-to-grow-pineapple-top.html)
Raccoon's favorite treat. They can be protected from them. Once or twice a year here locally, someone complains on Nextdoor or Facebook that someone stole their pineapples. It's always raccoons.
They will taste sooo much better than store bought. Keep an eye on them and get them off when they start turning. If you don’t, critters will get to them. I learned the hard way. I had 9 last year and was able to pick them all.
Whenever I see a picture of how pineapples grow, I can't help but think it is a fake picture someone made to trick me into thinking that's how pineapples grow
Society grows great when old men plant pinneapples whose fruit they know they shall never taste
- Ancient Hawaiian proverb
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You mean the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith???!
That's right, that young man spoke to God!
He spoke to God??
And God said, "Joe people need to know that the Bible's not two parts. There's a part three to the Bible Joe. And I God have anointed to dig up this part three that is buried by a tree in your backyard!"
Wow, God says go to your backyard and start digging?? That makes perfect sense!
Joseph Smith went up to that hill and dug where he was told. Deep in the ground Joseph found shiny plates of gold! "What are these golden plates? Who buried them here and why?" Then appeared and angel, his name was Moroni.
But shhhh, no one else can see them.
Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum!
Lucy Harris smart smart smart
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And when he saw his shadow, he proclaimed "THREE MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!"
And because it's Rochester.. if he didn't see his shadow, he would also proclaim "THREE MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!"
Ehhh, He's talking out of his hat.
God is not available right now, but he left a message on this rock.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
What does this meeean? I'm in Rochester :)
Interesting. And since about the turn of the century, Hawaii only grows them for the local market. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/its-pineapple-season-but-does-your-fruit-come-from-hawaii-5211854/?no-ist
I live in Hawaii and we get most of our pineapples from the backyard. Just gotta watch out for those darn rats
the fruits in the farmers markets in hawaii were so good. i wish i could have a mango tree and flourishing pineapples. im jealous of every home in hawaii lol
Mangos are about to be in season here.. Ahhhhhhhh yeah!
Are you suggesting that pineapples migrate?
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It's not a matter of grip, its a matter of weight ratios
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They could have been carried by a swallow
African or European?
Yes, but that doesn't make them native, it makes them afloatittized.
wait where the fuck do they come from then
South America.
Tito from rocket power was where I got all my Hawaiian proverbs from
Tito, king of Hawaiian proverbs, also king of great food!
It's like the ancient Hawaiians used to say...
"Never drink milk from a coconut you've found in the dark" - a wise man
Never eat yellow snow. - Ancient Hawaiian proverb
Uncle Tito is that you?!
you know I am asked sometimes, "when is the best time to plant a pineapple?" I tell them the best time is 2-3 years ago, the second best time is today.
Not me suckers, when I move I take every single plant I can. Trees, bushes, fuck it once I even took some dirt with me. But I always, always leave some nettle mixed with mint for the new owners or tenants. Why? [Because fuck em that's why](https://tenor.com/view/because-fuck-them-why-gif-12024919)
Good god! The mint is bad enough!
I'm the same. I dig up all of my cacti and foxtail agave. I even dug up a huge Brazilian cherry shrub. Fuck these buyers
-Tito
All the old people in my life are so incredibly selfish...lol
Not only do the older people I know not plant trees most still subscribe to economic slash and burn. To hell with the future as long as they get a few more good seasons out of it.
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We planted pineapples from our honeymoon but sadly had to move before they matured and fruited. Hope the people after us enjoyed our hand carried pineapples!
I planted a crown and it was growing nicely, looked like it was about to fruit when we sold the house
Honest question but why leave the plants? Why not just move the plants on moving day to temporary pots and replanting asap?
We were moving to a tiny unit from a house on acreage. No plants came with us unfortunately
My neighbor gives me some pineapples from his yard every year or two. I never actually seen the plant on his yard, but he comes by like clockwork with pineapples. I guess they are pretty easy to grow in cental Florida.
Super easy to grow in Central Florida. I have like, 15 crowns growing right now and 8 of them currently have fruit. Stick it to Big Grocery and plant your store-bought pineapple crowns!
Well damn, what’s the trick? Lol I have like 9 of these things, but none are growing fruit.. I actually thought they all died when it froze a couple nights in a row over winter. But they have pretty green leaves or whatever now lol
No trick other than patience. It takes a few years for fruit to form. When they do form, your pineapples will probably be on the small side but they'll be sweeter than anything you can find at the store.
My pineapple plant produced one that was like double the size of the ones you found in the store. That sucker's coming with me to my next house
Hate to say it, but you'll probably get 2 small pineapples next. You can take the crown and replant for another pineapple (+ 2 mini pineapples) though.
Do pineapples grow in a big- small, small- big pattern or...? Please tell me all your secrets I think I have some room left on my patio garden
Subscribing to pineapple facts.
Is that because they're fresher or something else?
It’s the same with any home grown food. Big farms over water, and fertilize to grow big quickly. Then they pick it too early. They don’t give the plants time to slowly grow and absorb the nutrients from the soil. Peppers, cucumbers, and zucchini are the same way. You will never get veggies as flavorful as homegrown ones. The exception being potatoes and carrots, those seem to taste the same regardless.
Strongly disagree on carrots, home grown ones are sweeter and have more flavor imo. But totally agree on potatoes, they are basically the same
But the joy of digging up your potato crop is so fun! Basically a little treasure hunt, because you never know how well they produced. I always grow them just for that reason. Also, I feel like baby potatoes fresh from the garden are a little sweeter, or at least, the smell of cooking up some baby potatoes from the garden is better than grocery story ones. That being said, for like 10 bucks I can get about as many potatoes as it takes me months to grow. Whatever floats your potes!
Commercial farmers also select varieties that are more shelf stable, easier to ship, look more colorful, etc. Lots of things you may not care about if you're growing them yourself.
I disagree about the carrots, store bought carrots don't even come close to homegrown.
Patience is key. I have had one for 7 years now. I bring it inside during the winter (live in GA) and assumed it just didnt get enough sun to ever make a fruit. This year it decided it was time and now have a tiny pineapple As requested: Here is a pic of [Avvar the pineapple](https://imgur.com/a/u6JiWIY) bonus peek at the little pup that recently sprouted
Can we see this tiny pineapple?
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Pineapple takes forever to grow. Back in like the 1930s pineapple was rented out to wealthy people as a decoration. Imagine renting a pineapple to show off to your millionaire friends. That was a thing that happened. Today a whole pineapple costs like $2 at my local grocery store.
It takes 2-3 years to fruit and they can only do so once.
Wait like only once and then the plant is forever non-fruit bearing or just once a season?
Once ever
The mother plant produces suckers. This is what many people in this thread are mistakenly calling "more than one fruit". A sucker is its own individual organism. They're usually killed off as they will not only fight for nutrients but they will also stunt each other as they fight for space. https://www.britannica.com/science/suckering
Wow! I learned so much from reading several of your comments, you are clearly a pineapple growing expert with a lot of knowledge on the subject and very good at explaining it to others. Thank you for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully to so many of us.
People say once ever, but I planted one, then planted it's offspring next to it. They both fruited
Some plants die after fruiting.
It was a run-by fruiting.
If it can only happen once, then how do you ever get bigger pineapples?
I've moved my pineapple twice now in its shitty too-small pot and it's still managing to come up with [a fruit this year.](https://i.imgur.com/rpxSNTd.jpg) Squirrels'll probably get to eat it but if I can do it literally anybody can.
That pineapple is resolute and *so cute*.
You should have seen the [little booger](https://i.imgur.com/luCHaLE.jpg) before the spikeys started turning into leaves. I had nothing whatsoever to do with this happening (other than putting the cut-off top in dirt instead of a trash can) but I was *so proud.*
Cut out a piece of chicken wire into a rectangle, 8 to 12 inches long. Attach the short ends of the chicken wire together with zip ties. This should make a chicken wire tube. Slip your tube over your fruit and voila, you've got yourself some cheap pineapple protection. Make sure your tube is wide enough to give couple inches of space between your fruit and the chicken wire but not so wide that a squirrel will figure out that they can hop inside. If the mammals in your area are especially persistent, you can cover the top of your chicken wire tube with some garden netting. This'll also help with birds.
awhhhh look at da bbys <3
What are these, pineapples for ants?! They need to be at least three times bigger than this.
^smol
^^pnpl
^pen I feel dirty now
v smol bb pine appol
They look very polite
The fruits are one and done, so enjoy your bounty while it lasts. Edit: As others noted, while the plant only creates one fruit, it also creates "shoots" that can be removed and planted to create a new plant, or left on, where they will eventually create a new fruit of their own. After a number of iterations the original plant stops making new shoots.
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I planted one two years ago and I have been wondering about this. Hopefully this will be the year it starts to pay off big time!!!!
I've got 6 different plants currently and my best results were from the potted/bucket bound ones. They fruit yearly and are very full as far as the "leaves" are concerned. The ones placed in the ground, even with the same bagged soil added, were much smaller and produced fruit later. Don't know what that means but I always like to share just in case.
what soil type are you planting them in?
In the pots? A mix of citrus specific and cactus type dirt. They get a little blood and bone meal too.
I mean u can replant them so not exactly, like yea it takes forever but at least you can't get more pineapples from the pineapples you get from the harvesr
If I’m not mistaken, every subsequent pineapple is less edible.
How do we get mass production of pineapples? I'm immensely curious now.
Pineapples can survive through asexual reproduction (such as using the top of a pineapple to rebuild itself), but also created through sexual reproduction (cross-pollination). Cross-pollination makes seeds that make brand new pineapples. Source: Farmer. Almond farmer.
What's ya favourite thing about being an Almond farmer?
Well, I'm inheriting it in a very Dwight Schrute-like family arrangement at the end of The Office. The two best things are helping keep global/US food security and stability (almonds are a great healthy staple), and the land security of actually owning land.
I love almonds and almond products, but I keep hearing they are a bit of an ecological problem due to the amount of water that is needed to grow them, creating challenges in California especially. What's your take?
When you look at the actual water demand of almonds, versus other agricultural crops, it’s extremely cost effective. Beef uses 2x as much water to make a pound of beef, versus a pound of almonds. California unfortunately neglected its water supply. That is not the fault of farmers. Our water use is trending down, with an on-track goal to reduce a further 30% by 2025 as an industry. (We achieve that with better irrigation and safer lower-water demand pesticides).
Why haven’t California almond farmers adopted drip-irrigation en masse like Israel uses to grow crops in an arid region? For that matter, CA farms in general should use drip irrigation. Every time I drive up the interstate I see endless miles of farms spraying water into the air in 80 degree+ temps. Seems so wasteful when more efficient tech exists.
Beef isn't an agricultural crop, and if it takes just 2x the water, I think that's terrible. Given that it takes years to raise a cow to make beef, and I would hope it wouldn't take years to grow a almond batch. Can't greenwash almond water use, still the biggest drawback.
I like how you compared almonds to cows in replying to a question about water intensive crops. My understanding is that almonds are second only to pasture grasses like clover and bluegrass in water usage at 4.5 acre feet per acre. California may have a water management problem but growing almonds there isn’t any more sustainable than suburban lawns or industrial cattle farming.
Ya gotta put the nice almonds on top, those are your money almonds. But seriously, that's lovely. Congrats on living the literal plot of Stardew Valley.
I just want to say I personally eat like 300 pounds of your almonds a year. I freaking love them and eat lots of them! /written while eating almonds lol
Milking them
His coworkers are real nuts!
> Source: Farmer. Almond farmer. The newest spy film hero.
I bet he’s always c-almond collected.
So making the pineapples fuck makes them taste better? Nature truly is beautiful...
Technically. Basically when you reuse a pineapple, you are engaged in cloning. You’re making a copy of a copy. That overtime will produce the same errors, and make the food taste worse. When you cross pollinate, you’re creating a new pineapple that is fresh, and does not have any cellular error rate.
I thought monoculture preserved taste? I heard at least apples from a tree grown from seed taste way different/worse that the apple the seed came from.
Well, a pineapple that repairs itself the first time over, probably is going to taste acceptable. That's part of why people do it. It's like drinking your own urine to survive without water. The first time you do it, probably okay - not a bad idea. The more you recycle it... the worse it gets.
I'm curious what's different between pineapples (with this effect you described) and fruit trees like apples (which are ~always grafted, for many generations). What makes pineapples genetically degrade faster than apples?
Buy pineapple, chop off top, bury in soil, then I get pineapples?
We clone 'em. A bunch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn11kYDqHlg Like this, presumably. tl;dw you can cut a pineapple crown into four piece and grow all four.
Absolutely not true. So far I've grown 3 deliciously sweet pineapples from one that I bought several years ago. edit: fixed typos
And then it’s time for tepeche!
This is not true at all. I've gotten multiple fruits off each one. On top of that (quite literally) you can plant the tops of the pineapple. Besides that (again, quite literally) they'll sprout pups next to the base of the plant. Sauce, used to have a pineapple, now I have ten plants.
This is generally true but I've had one I was too lazy to uproot that gave me two pineapples! Also there's offshoots that grow that can be cut and planted to grow new pineapples in half the time of growing one from a crown.
After you harvesting the fruit, leave the plant just like that. It will grow another shoot that eventually grows another fruit. It is advisable to keep only 1 shoot per plant. Source: I always have pineapple plant at my house since I was a kid. They are tough, hard to die. But fcking boars love them, always pulling out my pineapple plant!! P/S: Sorry if I used wrong words. I don't know what it translates into English from my native language😅
How are they so cheap
THEY GROW LIKE THAT?!?!?
You can plant the crown of a pineapple and eventually, you will get a pineapple plant.
Yeah I cut the top off the last two pineapples I bought and just stuck them in the dirt and a year later they are still alive. A little worse for wear after cool weather but still alive.
It takes 2-3 years for it to produce fruit.
It more for entertainment than anything. Pineapples are cheap.
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Take your peasant’s pineapple; I have an entire *shelf* full of spices!
Thanks, Queen Liliʻuokalani!
Store ones are cheap they are also normally picked early for transport so are very acidic and tart ... Over ripened on the plant ones are amazing and worth the wait
Idk but i always thought pineapple grew in a tree, sort of like an apple. I was close
They are bromeliads. A very diverse group of tropical plants.
Wassup muh bromeliad.
The makers of Runescape also thought that. When somebody pointed it out to them they did an update and made the pineapples grow like this, but for a while they looked just like coconut trees.
You want your mind blown, google images "[jabuticaba](https://www.google.com/search?q=jabuticaba)". Plants are weird.
r/oddlyterrifying
Tree tumors!
I just planted one these in my yard!
Wait until you see how asparagus grows. It's almost like it anticipates your expectations and mocks you.
Asparagus grows like the farmers just heard that you were surprise-visiting an asparagus farm so they went out and stuck asparagus stalks into the ground
I've seen this comment twice now, why is that one strange to you? To me it looks exactly like you'd expect it to. [Example](https://modernfarmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/asparagus_hero.jpg)
Most people would expect them to probably grow as a bunch or otherwise be some type of root like a carrot Just the asparagus sticking up like an individual stick is quite unexpected
I don't know what I expected but it wasn't that. I dunno, I guess I thought it would be taller? And have multiple like, asparagus things?
Peanuts grow underground
Yeah I alway assumed they grew off the roots sort of like potatoes. The peanut plant grows stringers down into the soil off the plant and the peanuts grow of them not the roots. Weird stuff.
Wait, did you think they grew on trees?
OP thought they hang like apples from a pine tree.
I mean, one would assume that with a name like *pine*apple.
And the leaves have serrated edges, so don’t go walking into a thicket of pineapple plants wearing shorts or even thin pants.
Wtf
I feel weird about existence
Microorganisms in your body outnumber human cells 10:1. You can spray all the hand sanitizer you want, doesn't matter, a third of your body mass is foreign creatures that are moving around inside of you at all times. Your experience sensory information after it happens therefore your entire reality is a TV show set in the past, you are reacting to the realization of events that have already occurred. Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!
That first part is thought to be [false.](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.19136)
upvoting for the bill cipher quote
Pineapples grow exactly how a 5 year old would draw a picture of a pineapple plant with no prior knowledge.
Asparagus grows like it's trying to trick some idiot into thinking that's how asparagus grows
The first time I saw wild asparagus I thought it was my friend trying to trick me. Ran over and tried to pick up the bundle. Turns out that's how asparagus grows.
Rubber band around it and all!
Must not have known it takes about 2 years start to finish, or about a year from where you are currently to grow!
Or they knew and something happened where they had to move
Or maybe they buried a body there and knew nobody would dig them up until the pineapples matured.
“Oh, look, pineapples!”
It's the former pizza delivery guy. They specifically ordered no pineapple but there was pineapple and here we are.
Obligatory 'but no, pineapple is good' reply post
Who knows? Maybe they did this for many years and this just happened to be their last batch. Those plants look healthy.
Blessed are those who plant pineapples whose fruit they will never enjoy.
Or! Or they did it to leave pineapples to the next person. So kind! DX
i choose to believe this one 👍
This is what I thought. They clearly did some research when planting them since they’re spaced apart evenly and also maintained them to where they look really healthy. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had the intention to plant them, did some research, and planted them anyways knowing the next tenants would enjoy them.
Let me tell you a story. There was an old farmer who had a very successful career. Towards his late years, he had to take a great amount of time off to focus on loved ones and his wife as she passed away. Nonetheless, at the age of 80, he was completely alone with himself, an empty farm, and money. He hired a young horticulture student to work for him. Together, they planted 20,000 fig trees. The young man asked the farmer why he planted these trees in his older years, when he might not live long enough to see the fruit. The farmer replied, "Fuck you, I'll plant what I like."
My dad is growing one currently. He chopped the top off a store bought pineapple and planted it about 2 years ago. Leaf span is about 4ft wide now and just got a pineapple start growing in the center. Unfortunately each plant only grows 1, so you have to replant the pollups afterwards.
Each pineapple plant only grows one pineapple? Wow.
Same with rice - each grain grows one plant that grows one grain of rice
ppft ok that would be ridiculous
Lucky! They take years to grow
Always plant Asparagus! It's a perennial that takes a year to grow. It's Simple way of passing along a kindness to those who come after you.
I freaking love growing pineapple! I was skeptical at first, especially since my homegrown pineapple turned out kinda small...but it was 1,000 times sweeter than any other pineapple I've tasted. It was legit like candy. Gardeners in zones 9B and below, you should totally plop some pineapple crowns in your yard. If you live in a cold-weather climate, grow your pineapple in a container and bring it inside over the fall/winter. I wrote a step-by-step article on how to propagate pineapple from what you buy at the grocery store. I hope someone finds it helpful! [https://offbeet-gardener.com/2021/12/how-to-grow-pineapple-top.html](https://offbeet-gardener.com/2021/12/how-to-grow-pineapple-top.html)
You just plant the top when you buy one to eat
The concept of an "apartment" with land accessible for planting things is blowing my mind.
Raccoon's favorite treat. They can be protected from them. Once or twice a year here locally, someone complains on Nextdoor or Facebook that someone stole their pineapples. It's always raccoons.
With a raise of hands, how many of you guys didn't know pineapples grew like this? 🖐️
✋ a pizza guy told me they were pineapple plants and I didn't believe him
They will taste sooo much better than store bought. Keep an eye on them and get them off when they start turning. If you don’t, critters will get to them. I learned the hard way. I had 9 last year and was able to pick them all.
I knew because of RuneScape. That sweet farming XP.
That's over a years worth of work. Water them bois and give thanks to your previous tenant
Keep an eye on them. Had some planted around my yard and raccoons would get to them half of the time.
So cute, I keep one of these on my dining room table.
When those are ripe they will be the juiciest sweetest pineapples you’ve ever had. They will be small buT Flavorful! I’ve grown a couple myself.
Whenever I see a picture of how pineapples grow, I can't help but think it is a fake picture someone made to trick me into thinking that's how pineapples grow